52 Quotes by Benjamin N. Cardozo

Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.

The risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.